Yup also like malls but usually just go straight to the store I need to go to and leave. Best mall is either southcentre or market mall. Can't decide. Although all of Calgary's malls are good except for maybe marlborough.
I like Market Mall, but the redesign of The Core looks pretty fantastic.
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The Core downtown is a wonderful place. It doesn't feel like a mall. More like and indoor Steven Ave. It is so bright and open that you don't get that dungeon feel. Even at lunch hour when it is packed it doesn't feel full of people.
I associate Mission, Kensingten and 17th as part of downtown. If you think of downtown vancouver it is a bunch of different districts connected by tall buildings. Yaletown, Gastown etc. The thing is in Calgary we started with a larger "downtown" footprint and our smaller population hasn't yet reached the point where there has been demand to infill it. We also didn't do a good job of mixing residential with commercial.
We also always compare calgary with Toronto, Vancouver, Seattle. All places with significantly greater pop. For a city of a million our downtown is pretty good. Compare it with Edmonton, Salt Lake City, and Winnipeg and we are by far the best. The problem is we always compare up.
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I associate Mission, Kensingten and 17th as part of downtown. If you think of downtown vancouver it is a bunch of different districts connected by tall buildings. Yaletown, Gastown etc. The thing is in Calgary we started with a larger "downtown" footprint and our smaller population hasn't yet reached the point where there has been demand to infill it. We also didn't do a good job of mixing residential with commercial.
Our problem has more to do with building endless suburbs than the size of our population.
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The renovated Core mall is the best in the city and it isn't even finished. For higher end men's wear there's no comparison.
Like others have said, many people define "downtown" calgary as the business district. In a white collar city like Calgary or Toronto or even New York the business districts are by nature more weekday oriented. No one hangs around Bay street in Toronto on the weekend or evening, but you wouldn't call "downtown" Toronto a ghost town. The life is on streets like queen or bloor - it's the dense mixed use areas surrounding the CBD that most cities still call "downtown" that are alive.
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The renovated Core mall is the best in the city and it isn't even finished. For higher end men's wear there's no comparison.
Like others have said, many people define "downtown" calgary as the business district. In a white collar city like Calgary or Toronto or even New York the business districts are by nature more weekday oriented. No one hangs around Bay street in Toronto on the weekend or evening, but you wouldn't call "downtown" Toronto a ghost town. The life is on streets like queen or bloor - it's the dense mixed use areas surrounding the CBD that most cities still call "downtown" that are alive.
Good points. The business districts of Toronto/Bay Street, NYC/Wall Street and Chicago/The Loop are also ghost towns on the weekend much like Calgary's core. It's because they are mainly just office towers, few residential towers and the restaurants/hotels cater to the weekday crowd. The hotels in these areas including Calgary have higher rates during the weekday (business crowd) and lower rates on the weeekend as demand drops. You need to go to the downtown entertainment districts in Toronto (Bloor/Queen), NYC (Midtown/Times Square), Chicago (Michigan/Rush), Calgary (17 Ave/Kensington/4th Street) on the weekends to find the action. Calgary for it's size has a great core.
